Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 92
The street boys stood on tiptoe and shouted "hurrah," and whistled between their fingers; altogether it was a very splendid affair.
Who acts: street boys, hurrah · What happens: stand, shout, whistle, be · To what, where: tiptoe, hurrah, fingers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (street boys, hurrah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 2 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boys | compound |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 tiptoe | case |
| 6 | tiptoe | tiptoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shouted | cc |
| 8 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hurrah | punct |
| 10 | hurrah | hurrah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shouted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hurrah | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hurrah | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 whistled | cc |
| 14 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shouted | conj |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 fingers | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 whistled | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 19 | altogether | altogether | ADP | _ | 25 affair | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 affair | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 affair | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 affair | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 splendid | advmod |
| 24 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 affair | amod |
| 25 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the street boys | tiptoe | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tiptoe=Location | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | the street boys not said here | hurrah | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic | ||||
| 3 | whistle | past | the street boys not said here | boys's fingers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between finger=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | hurrah | altogether a splendid affair | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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